Articles By David Barrett
March 2013
J.M. Coetzee is a curiously chilly author and his Kafkaesque new novel is a parable about the writer's place in a world ruled by cold rationalism
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January/February 2012
Book review of A Point of View by Clive James
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November 2011
Book review of The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
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June 2011
The judge who resigned over the Man Booker International Prize being awarded to Philip Roth wilfully ignored the author's enduring brilliance
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June 2011
Damian Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull is a worthless as it is indulgent
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April 2011
The tale of Martin Amis's dead talent is so popular in the press that it has become a cliché. But his detractors' criticisms increasingly focus on his private life, not his literature
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March 2011
Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding reveals the Wikileaks founder's facile politics and ignorance of history
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March 2011
An "Orwellian" US-based company, which generates editorial content "without human authoring", highlights the difference between lazy journalism and sinister civil restriction
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About David Barrett
David Barrett is an Australian writer and a former journalist at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He lives in London.
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